The Three Lands

He vowed himself to his god. Now the god is growing impatient . . .

The Three Lands, a fantasy series on friendship, romance, and betrayal in times of war and peace.

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Sections below: Resources | Law Links | Blood Vow | Bard of Pain | Mystery.

RESOURCES

Introduction to The Three Lands. Three paragraphs summarizing the series.

Chronology of the Three Lands of the Great Peninsula. A timeline, periodically updated. Includes spoilers for Three Lands stories already published.

Pronunciation Guide to Proper Names. Includes an MP3 file.

Law Links

Few events are more thrilling in a Koretian boy's life than a blood feud between two villages. Or so Adrian thought.

Torn between affection toward his traditional-minded father and worship of his peace-loving, heretical priest, Adrian finds himself caught between two incompatible visions of his duty to the gods. Then the Jackal God sends Adrian a message that will disrupt his life and send him fleeing from a danger he knows too well.

This novel is part of The Three Lands, a fantasy series set in a multicultural world where conflicts over law and spirituality provide opportunities for friendship, and for betrayal.

¶ Series information: The Three Lands > Law Links | Genre: Fantasy.

EXCERPT – Law Links: Excerpt.

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Blood Vow

He has taken a blood vow to the Jackal God to bring freedom to his land by killing Koretia's greatest enemy. But what will he do when the enemy becomes his friend?

Thrust into exile and pain, young Andrew has no choice but to accept the friendship of the very person he had vowed to kill. When he returns with his friend to his homeland fifteen years later, though, he finds himself in a land of conflicting loyalties . . . where a vengeful god awaits him.

¶ Series information: The Three Lands > Blood Vow | Publication history: August 1995 to March 1996 (composition; the short story on which it was based was composed in 1979), February 2008 (list edition), and July 2008 (Web edition and booktrailer) | Length: 120,000 words | Genre: Fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this book (with minor spoilers).

Booktrailer | Online edition.

BOOKTRAILER

Includes mild spoilers for Part One of the novel.

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ONLINE EDITION

Blood Vow (full novel) (647 KB).

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Bard of Pain

In the battle-weary lands of the Great Peninsula, only one fate is worse than being taken prisoner by the Lieutenant: being taken prisoner if you are the Lieutenant.

As the world's most skilled torturer struggles with his change of fortune, he finds that his fate is intertwined with the destinies of an idealistic army commander, an affectionate prisoner, and a protégé who reveres the Lieutenant's art . . . but is on the wrong side of the conflict.

¶ Series information: The Three Lands > Bard of Pain | Publication history: June 2002 (composition & list edition), May 2006 (Web edition), October 2007 (audio book edition, e-book editions, and booktrailer), and March 2008 (Kindle e-book edition) | Length: 38,000 words | Genre: Fantasy | Detailed genre tags for this book (with minor spoilers) | Reviews.

BOOKTRAILER

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KINDLE E-BOOK EDITION

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Bard of Pain (Kindle edition).

AUDIO BOOK EDITION

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Bard of Pain (MP3 edition).

ONLINE EDITIONS

Bard of Pain (full novel) (220 KB).

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Bard of Pain: Front Matter (including epigraph).

Part One: The Darkness – Bard of Pain 1 | Bard of Pain 2 | Bard of Pain 3 | Bard of Pain 4.

Part Two: The Fire – Bard of Pain 5 | Bard of Pain 6 | Bard of Pain 7.

Bard of Pain: Back Matter.

Mystery

Three days ago he faced death by fire. Now he faces a bigger challenge.

ONLINE EDITION – Mystery.

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